Albert Extension Filex

Filex is a Python extension for the Albert launcher to index, find and open files and folders.

You need the Python bindings for Gio (part of GLib) to use Filex. On Debian/Ubuntu run the following command to install the dependencies.

sudo apt install gir1.2-glib-2.0 python3-gi

To install, run

sudo make PREFIX=/usr/local install

Activate Filex in Albert's preferences under Extensions / Python / Filex. Configure paths to index by editing ~/.config/albert/filex.json. Paths are interpreted as glob patterns using Python's glob module.